If you found a new telescope under the Christmas tree, congratulations. You're about to get close and personal with your universe.Be patient. Too many Christmas telescopes wind up as an extra coat rack because of overblown expectations followed by disappointment. Take your time with the new scope and thoroughly read the instructions.Read more

The celestial equivalent of a street directory! Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide contains everything you need to know about the southern night sky with monthly star maps, diagrams and details of all the year's exciting celestial events. Wherever you are in Australia, easy calculations allow you to determine when the Sun, Moon and planets will rise and set throughout the year. Also included is information on the latest astronomical findings from space probes and telescopes around the world.Read more

If you have a stargazing fan on your gift list there are a lot of choices.I recommend buying online from one of the major telescope brands, such as Orion and Meade. Go to their websites and you'll find many choices in types price range and information that'll help you buy the right scope.The are three basic kinds of scopes: refractors, reflectors and Cassegrains.Read more

The Christmas advertising season seems to hit a little earlier every year. Buried in those gigantic advertising supplements, you will find alluring photos of small telescopes that aren't particularly adequate for stargazing. These days, a more insidious trap awaits the unwary telescope buyer. Those small 'scopes now sometimes have computers attached to them. The computer will find the moon for you. At last, it seems, we are free of the burden of knowing the complexities of the nighttime sky.... Source

Amidst thousands of telescopic products, Wonderview stands tall owing to its rugged yet attractive design. Try this telescope to get 6000% magnified images of the objects that are not clear to the naked eyes.SourceEd ~ needless to say that one should not buy this product.

Amateur Astronomers, Inc. (AAI), will show you how to choose and correctly use a backyard telescope at two events this month. "Know Your Scope - Know the Sky" is two nights of free lessons and a chance to view the stars through a variety of telescopes.Read more

To those advertising cheap astronomical telescopes, the word "power" is usually applied to the magnification of the telescope.In truth, magnification is of limited use. The true power of an astronomical telescope is its ability to collect light. Most astronomical objects are faint, and things a long way away can be very faint. To see distant galaxies formed close to the beginning of the universe, we are faced with the problem of observing very faint objects indeed.Source

You can change the magnification of any telescope simply by switching out the eyepiece. To determine the magnification, divide the focal length of the telescope by the focal length of the eyepiece. These measurements will be displayed on the box and in the booklet that comes in it. The focal length of the eyepiece will be clearly displayed right on the eyepiece.For example, a telescope with a focal length of 1500mm paired with a 25mm eyepiece will give the telescope a 60x magnification (1500/25 = 60). If you swap the 25mm eyepiece with a 10mm eyepiece, the same telescope's magnification increases to 150x (1500/10 = 150).Read more